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Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

In todays episode of "Plex enshittifies" Plex employee breaks ToS.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736

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I was only speaking to your question upthread. It sounds like you do agree with me that Plex does have a history of concerning privacy decisions. This one even directly affected users sharing your library.
As to the rest I’m not here to sell you on Jellyfin. It’s the right platform for my needs and I’m very happy with it. I’m not one of the “run a pirate tv server for a group of my friends” users, so I don’t place any value on the features that keep you on plex.
Open source will keep being open source. Every year seems to bring improvements to vpn technology and general consumer awareness of them. I have no doubt that Jellyfin will continue to close the gap, by all measures it is a popular and growing project. One day it may even be suitable for you.
- I’m not one of the “run a pirate tv server for a group of my friends” users
  I hate this distinction... If you have jellyfin exposed without some other form of auth in front of it is the problem. It has nothing to do with friends or other users.
  Friends and other users make it hard to implement anything reasonable. If you're running it strictly for yourself and have a vpn. Great. More power to you. But dropping Leaving this completely unrelated link to a better alternative here: https://jellyfin.org/ with no caveats as if it is a complete replacement for Plex is not the answer. Then when someone comes along and specifies why it's not a good answer I get mobbed by the lemmy mob for pointing out why jellyfin is not as advertised (literally).
  
  I hate this distinction… If you have jellyfin exposed without some other form of auth in front of it is the problem. It has nothing to do with friends or other users.
  Right. I don't have Jellyfin exposed. Because I'm not trying to share its contents with anyone. That's the distinction.
  
  Okay... so you're visiting family. And you want to watch something on their LG tv. What do you do?
  
  That's not a situation I've ever faced, but imagining the hypothetical, I'd play it on my iPad and airplay/stream that to the TV.
  
  The iPad will last a whole movies worth of time streaming a screen mirror? That's impressive I guess.
  Edit: Thinking about it... wouldn't you have problems connecting to the tv over the wifi if you have VPN active?
  
  The iPad will last a whole movies worth of time streaming a screen mirror? That’s impressive I guess.
  I'm struggling to figure out what you're trying to communicate here. I mean, yeah, probably. The iPad is notorious for its class-leading battery life under real usage. But you know, it can also be plugged into the wall with any USB-C charger. It's weird to me that you'd even bring this up.
  I've seen you mention in several posts that you're frustrated by the unfriendly response you perceive from this community. Have you ever considered that it might be your personality and not your views that's causing it?
  Edit: No, I have no difficulties reaching local devices while connected to my VPN.
  
  Sorry but I edited my post seconds after you responded. My bad. Didn't mean to edit under you.
  Thinking about it… wouldn’t you have problems connecting to the tv over the wifi if you have VPN active?
  Have you ever considered that it might be your personality
  Nah, nobody here "knows" me. And you can't discern "personality" traits in 3 sentences of text.
  
  . . . you can’t discern “personality” traits in 3 sentences of text.
  I've definitely formed an opinion based on our brief interaction. Is it hard to believe that others might have also done so?
  
  Can't stop you from doing whatever you want in your own head though can I? If you think you have the breadth of someones personality and thoughts after just one conversation... Then honestly I don't really care about what you think. People aren't that simple, issues usually aren't that simple.
  The lemmy mob I'm referencing is actually more of a downvote campaign... it's the same group of people nearly every time.
  
  I never said I have the breadth of your personality. But I sure as shit have some opinions at this point about what it's like to interact with you online.
  Then honestly I don’t really care about what you think.
  Perhaps not me personally but you've expressed elsewhere in the comments that you do care about the reaction you've received from this community. You've expressed frustration at the replies and downvotes you've received.
  The lemmy mob I’m referencing is actually more of a downvote campaign… it’s the same group of people nearly every time.
  I'm suggesting that it might not be about your views specifically and more about how you choose to interact with the other people here.

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